Resources for your patients
Information and support resources that you may wish to provide to your cancer clinical trials patients to help them feel informed.
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Cancer Connect provides people affected by cancer with the opportunity to speak with a trained volunteer who has clinical trial experience.
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Information and videos about clinical trials in languages other than English.
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Cancer Council’s nurses provide information and support to people affected by cancer. If you have a patient or carer that needs support, our cancer nurses can contact them to see how they can help.
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For more information about the different types of cancer, you may want to refer your patients to one of these pages.
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Patient-suitable information about the different types of cancer treatments.
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This brochure was developed in conjunction with Alfred TrialHub, the Australian Teletrial Program, and patients and explains how teletrials work.
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Metrics & quality assurance
Helpful links to cancer and clinical trials data reports, plus monitoring and governance tools for research sites.
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This new report looks at trends in cancer treatment clinical trial activity and participation in Victoria between 2016 and 2021.
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This VCCC Alliance resource provides a benchmark to help clinical trial units and departments determine their reporting requirements.
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The latest Victorian annual statistics and trends report
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This framework embeds clinical trials into routine health service provision and strengthens clinician and corporate governance arrangements.
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This US based online tool is designed to help research sites and networks do an internal review of policies, programs and procedures to improve equity, diversity and inclusion in their clinical trials.
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Cancer-specific frameworks for the delivery of consistent, safe, high-quality, and evidence-based care for people with cancer.
Emerging trial methods
Information and resources about new methods to conduct clinical trials, and how to implement them.
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A factsheet produced by the VCCC Alliance outlining these two new clinical trial methodologies.
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The VCCC Alliance has a suite of educational modules, resources and information about teletrials.
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Resources developed by Medicines Australia to assist sponsors and sites establish teletrials.
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Online course that aims to enable clinical trial professionals to conduct more Reg-CTs available nationally.
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One page guide outlining the steps for setting up a registry-based clinical trial, produced by the VCCC Alliance.
Education
Links to online courses, workshops and other forms of professional development relating to clinical trials, cancer care and patient communication.
Clinical trial registries & apps
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A registry of clinical trials conducted in Australia and New Zealand.
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Federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world
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For disease specific Apps, search ClinTrial Refer in your App store. The ClinTrial Refer App has received multiple awards for innovation and improving trial awareness and is an App developed by Sydney Local Health District and South Eastern Local Health District.
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Hosted by the World Health Organization, you can use this site to search for clinical trials across 20 different clinical trials registries.
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European Registry of clinical trials.
Cancer Cooperative Trials Groups
In Australia, there are 14 cancer cooperative trials groups that conduct important cancer control research across a range of disciplines.
Other organisations
Links to other organisations working in the cancer and clinical trial space.
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National oncology trial network, based in Melbourne, facilitating oncology clinical trials across all phases.
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Established to facilitate cancer research across Victoria
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Information and guidance on clinical trials – good practice and clinical safety data management.
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Free information resource for those with cancer looking for a clinical trial.
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An initiative to provide information and resources to consumers, health care providers, researchers and industry about clinical trials.
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The national peak body supporting and representing networks of clinician-researchers conducting investigator-initiated clinical trials, maintaining clinical quality registries, and operating clinical trial coordinating centres within the Australian healthcare system.